The Lion on the Stairs
By Eugene Raphael · Dream Report · Liminal Light Lab
Outcome: a lucid dream that began when I noticed one eye was dreaming and the other wasn't, followed by a lion on a stairway.
This is one of the odder ways I've become lucid. From my journal, February 2024.
One eye dreaming
LUCID: One eye open and one eye closed, realized one eye was dreaming. Realized I was dreaming, went down a hall.
The lion
Instead of looking at my hands went down a stairway looking for an inorganic being. A lion came down the stairs after me; I pointed my pinky finger at it and said loudly "are you an inorganic being?" The lion came toward me then disappeared.
Explaining it inside the dream
A person appeared and I explained how I became aware: covering my right eye, it was dreaming but my left wasn't. Lost awareness at that point.
Later that night:
Emanations moving in a crazy mesh-like pattern.
Takeaway
Two lessons here. First, the split between the eyes was the trigger: one side of my vision was dreaming, and noticing the mismatch woke me up inside the dream. Second, explaining is where I lost it. As soon as I started telling a dream character how I got lucid, my attention shifted from experiencing to narrating, and the awareness slipped away. I'd skipped looking at my hands to go hunting instead, and in hindsight a moment of stabilizing first might have bought more time.
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